https://discoverygc.com/forums/ Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:55:26 +0000 MyBB https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=204678 Fri, 13 Sep 2024 19:22:23 +0000 Lonely Werewolf]]> https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=204678
I'm returning after another hiatus (no-one ever truly leaves!). Most of my time back in the day was playing under Platinum| & LR- but I also did a little bit of GC & Republican Shipping. I don't plan on flying with any factions anytime soon, just want to explore the updated universe as a Freelancer to begin with and take it from there.

You may see me flying under Iris.Lurechia or another similiar form, anybody is always welcome to say hi.

I have a question though, do any of the restarts offer a character with a completely blank map? I rather enjoy visiting all the stations and discovering every pirate base, jump hole etc all by myself. It's a very time consuming task doing that with no basic map information but I would enjoy it nonetheless. If however all the restarts now come complete with basic map information then nevermind, I'll make do.

Hope you're all having a good day, see you in space!]]>
I'm returning after another hiatus (no-one ever truly leaves!). Most of my time back in the day was playing under Platinum| & LR- but I also did a little bit of GC & Republican Shipping. I don't plan on flying with any factions anytime soon, just want to explore the updated universe as a Freelancer to begin with and take it from there.

You may see me flying under Iris.Lurechia or another similiar form, anybody is always welcome to say hi.

I have a question though, do any of the restarts offer a character with a completely blank map? I rather enjoy visiting all the stations and discovering every pirate base, jump hole etc all by myself. It's a very time consuming task doing that with no basic map information but I would enjoy it nonetheless. If however all the restarts now come complete with basic map information then nevermind, I'll make do.

Hope you're all having a good day, see you in space!]]> https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=204602 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 16:26:03 +0000 Anubite]]> https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=204602 https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=204551 Mon, 02 Sep 2024 08:18:46 +0000 The old ways are dying out]]> https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=204551 https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=204539 Sun, 01 Sep 2024 09:09:34 +0000 The old ways are dying out]]> https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=204539 You are making it way to convoluted with this ... I can't be reading manuals ... just ease up and maybe more will come ...

You kept this game alive no doubt but how about making it thrive ...............]]> You are making it way to convoluted with this ... I can't be reading manuals ... just ease up and maybe more will come ...

You kept this game alive no doubt but how about making it thrive ...............]]> https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=204537 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 21:49:51 +0000 Insano-Man]]> https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=204537

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How I Got Here
Some 14 or 16 years ago, an Australian friend of mine sent me a copy of Freelancer over XFire. Yeah, the whole thing - over XFire. I don't know how the Hell that worked, either. Straight away, the first thing we did was get into Discovery, at his urging. We played a long while, some on the official servers, some on one I hosted, until we eventually lost interest. We moved on, and I left Freelancer to the realm of memories.

Fast forward to recent months. My old buddy is now distant, and I don't think we've spoken in years, but I still remember Freelancer. Many years ago, I got Starpoint Gemini 2 for free - part of a Humble Bundle, I think? I finally got around to clearing it off my backlog a few months ago. The story, in a way, made me think of Freelancer - based on a huge misconception that the nomads canonically destroyed Earth, when that's never actually shown in the campaign at all. So, I tracked Freelancer down on an abandonware site; I'm no pirate anymore, but I'm still flat broke.

After slotting it into my planner just before Marathon, I went through the campaign. I had more mis-memories along the way - for example, I was convinced that Tobias died in the campaign - but I think I remembered most of the plot well enough. Not long after finishing, I had a spontaneous urge stick into me, and I pitched the idea of playing Discovery together with a couple of my friends - who, funnily enough, are both Australian, too.

My first post was a not-so-glittering review of Discovery, but I still see a lot of good in the mod. So, I've hung around as best I can, and tried to make the most of my time in-game.

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Who I Am
Insano-Man is my name, and getting stuck in the ceiling is my game. I usually try to go by this name as much as possible, but it's sometimes infeasible. You'll find me in hyphen-allergic territories as Fegroider or Shefford. I think more people know me by a compromise name than one I selected for myself, at this point.

I've been roleplaying for a long, long time; I got my start in StarCraft: Brood War around the same epoch as when I played Freelancer. I've tried to fit roleplaying into just about everything I do, from games, to modding, to forums, and more. I've mostly kept to closed groups populated by my friends, but I've managed some kind of roleplaying in just about every genre I've played so far. My native environment has always been in real-time strategy games, but, as of about 6 years ago, I went full-time into pure-text Discord roleplaying. I've written about three settings so far, each more complete than the last, and I think I've finally settled on sticking to my most recent.

When I am not savagely beating the English language with my monotonous manner of speech, I spend my time visiting great and terrible cruelties on video games. That opening line is no mistake; I have developed a stubborn reputation as having a digital Pauli effect on every game I play. I have filled up my hard drive several times over with videos I have taken to review the results. It won't stop. I can't make it stop. Please send help.

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What I'm Doing
I am presently flying by the names of Blackrise and Copeland. Blackrise is my solo character, in a Rheinland black market frigate, and Copeland is my group character, in a Junker Salvager frigate. In groups, I usually fly with Arksan and Salvador_Campos, the two buddies I mentioned above. We're all on the Junkers ID as part of the unpublished story we have going, and mostly flying trade routes. Blackrise has mostly been retired, since I've run out of room to improve there, but Copeland still flies on odd days of the week, usually around 5:00AM EST with one of my partners (yeah, I'm in the US, and slaved to Australian hours).

I've been trying to work up the nerve to get more of my faction concept out into the open, but it's rough. Life is doing me no favors right now, so my energy's shot. I've been advised that my ideas are not an ideal fit for Discovery - on a multiple fundamental levels - and I'm not sure if I'd be able to surmount that through sheer force of wit. It's been a very long time since I've done anything public, and I've never handled any public events before. I'm all talk and no walk right now, and that's a hard fence to climb.

Still, I'm doing what I can, with what I've got. If that means I'm just going to be some doofy pincherboat that squirts unsolicited noise at people, I'll make it work.

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I don't know where I'm going. I don't know how I'll get there. I don't know if I'll get there.

But I've still got all these fingers, noses, and toes.]]>

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How I Got Here
Some 14 or 16 years ago, an Australian friend of mine sent me a copy of Freelancer over XFire. Yeah, the whole thing - over XFire. I don't know how the Hell that worked, either. Straight away, the first thing we did was get into Discovery, at his urging. We played a long while, some on the official servers, some on one I hosted, until we eventually lost interest. We moved on, and I left Freelancer to the realm of memories.

Fast forward to recent months. My old buddy is now distant, and I don't think we've spoken in years, but I still remember Freelancer. Many years ago, I got Starpoint Gemini 2 for free - part of a Humble Bundle, I think? I finally got around to clearing it off my backlog a few months ago. The story, in a way, made me think of Freelancer - based on a huge misconception that the nomads canonically destroyed Earth, when that's never actually shown in the campaign at all. So, I tracked Freelancer down on an abandonware site; I'm no pirate anymore, but I'm still flat broke.

After slotting it into my planner just before Marathon, I went through the campaign. I had more mis-memories along the way - for example, I was convinced that Tobias died in the campaign - but I think I remembered most of the plot well enough. Not long after finishing, I had a spontaneous urge stick into me, and I pitched the idea of playing Discovery together with a couple of my friends - who, funnily enough, are both Australian, too.

My first post was a not-so-glittering review of Discovery, but I still see a lot of good in the mod. So, I've hung around as best I can, and tried to make the most of my time in-game.

---

Who I Am
Insano-Man is my name, and getting stuck in the ceiling is my game. I usually try to go by this name as much as possible, but it's sometimes infeasible. You'll find me in hyphen-allergic territories as Fegroider or Shefford. I think more people know me by a compromise name than one I selected for myself, at this point.

I've been roleplaying for a long, long time; I got my start in StarCraft: Brood War around the same epoch as when I played Freelancer. I've tried to fit roleplaying into just about everything I do, from games, to modding, to forums, and more. I've mostly kept to closed groups populated by my friends, but I've managed some kind of roleplaying in just about every genre I've played so far. My native environment has always been in real-time strategy games, but, as of about 6 years ago, I went full-time into pure-text Discord roleplaying. I've written about three settings so far, each more complete than the last, and I think I've finally settled on sticking to my most recent.

When I am not savagely beating the English language with my monotonous manner of speech, I spend my time visiting great and terrible cruelties on video games. That opening line is no mistake; I have developed a stubborn reputation as having a digital Pauli effect on every game I play. I have filled up my hard drive several times over with videos I have taken to review the results. It won't stop. I can't make it stop. Please send help.

---

What I'm Doing
I am presently flying by the names of Blackrise and Copeland. Blackrise is my solo character, in a Rheinland black market frigate, and Copeland is my group character, in a Junker Salvager frigate. In groups, I usually fly with Arksan and Salvador_Campos, the two buddies I mentioned above. We're all on the Junkers ID as part of the unpublished story we have going, and mostly flying trade routes. Blackrise has mostly been retired, since I've run out of room to improve there, but Copeland still flies on odd days of the week, usually around 5:00AM EST with one of my partners (yeah, I'm in the US, and slaved to Australian hours).

I've been trying to work up the nerve to get more of my faction concept out into the open, but it's rough. Life is doing me no favors right now, so my energy's shot. I've been advised that my ideas are not an ideal fit for Discovery - on a multiple fundamental levels - and I'm not sure if I'd be able to surmount that through sheer force of wit. It's been a very long time since I've done anything public, and I've never handled any public events before. I'm all talk and no walk right now, and that's a hard fence to climb.

Still, I'm doing what I can, with what I've got. If that means I'm just going to be some doofy pincherboat that squirts unsolicited noise at people, I'll make it work.

---

I don't know where I'm going. I don't know how I'll get there. I don't know if I'll get there.

But I've still got all these fingers, noses, and toes.]]> https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=204522 Thu, 29 Aug 2024 21:17:44 +0000 Tubalcain]]> https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=204522
like most here i guess i never really quitted the game. All few month i start over and it just feels like good old times. Got it as a gift from my parents at the age of 12. Now, 18 years later, still enjoy it.

But my ``return`` comes with a request, which i hope, some of the veteran modders can help me with.
I modded my game with some small changes to my personal liking. On the search for mods, or parts of some, i stumbled over a ship model which i cant forget.
Unfortunately the mod it was part of was never finished and the data never released so there is no finished model which i could use. All i have is a screenshot.
It is a reimagined Patriot of the Liberty Navy, a mix up from the models of the Patriot, Defender, Anubis and maybe even the Avanger.
My experience with graphics desing is very limited and so it is an impossible task for me to redo the model. All i could finde out was that the original creator used a method called merging. Sadly the guy isnt active anymore since several years so no help from ther.

So i hoped that someone here can help me to remodel this ship so i can add it into a local game off mine.
Dont get me wrong. I dont want to create or release a mod on my own, i just want this ship for my next session so bad.

The following link shows the ship ingame:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/glancer/image...a#imagebox

Greetings from Germany]]>
like most here i guess i never really quitted the game. All few month i start over and it just feels like good old times. Got it as a gift from my parents at the age of 12. Now, 18 years later, still enjoy it.

But my ``return`` comes with a request, which i hope, some of the veteran modders can help me with.
I modded my game with some small changes to my personal liking. On the search for mods, or parts of some, i stumbled over a ship model which i cant forget.
Unfortunately the mod it was part of was never finished and the data never released so there is no finished model which i could use. All i have is a screenshot.
It is a reimagined Patriot of the Liberty Navy, a mix up from the models of the Patriot, Defender, Anubis and maybe even the Avanger.
My experience with graphics desing is very limited and so it is an impossible task for me to redo the model. All i could finde out was that the original creator used a method called merging. Sadly the guy isnt active anymore since several years so no help from ther.

So i hoped that someone here can help me to remodel this ship so i can add it into a local game off mine.
Dont get me wrong. I dont want to create or release a mod on my own, i just want this ship for my next session so bad.

The following link shows the ship ingame:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/glancer/image...a#imagebox

Greetings from Germany]]> https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=204484 Mon, 26 Aug 2024 06:46:56 +0000 Tenshu]]> https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=204484
14 years ago I was Xavier Triton and fairly active on the RP side of the forums.
My character did a lot of trying to keep Zoners and border world factions from tearing each other's throats out. It *kinda* worked??
This was back during the Confederation of Freeports (COF) days and when TAZ was still an Official Faction. I belonged to TAZ at the time and represented them as an Ambassador. In short, at the end, Xavier took his Zoner Battleship, made it a sustainable township and then cruised off the map to find a new home for him and his own.
Anyways, life got busy and I had to duck out, but now I'm back.

I'm going to be flying about as Silas Triton inRP - A descendant of my previous character (There is a whole reverse gravitational time dilation type thing in the RP to explain why my character isn't in their early teens. I'll write it up soon)

As I get back acquainted with the game I'll see where I want to sit in terms of factions, which I'm happy to receive recommendations from.
The Admins have been really helpful in setting my up again via the Returning Veterans Program!

Besides all this, whats the political highlights in Sirius at the moment? Happy to receive links if that's easier for people, or badgering about the use of the forum search function. I do miss the old days.

Peace.]]>
14 years ago I was Xavier Triton and fairly active on the RP side of the forums.
My character did a lot of trying to keep Zoners and border world factions from tearing each other's throats out. It *kinda* worked??
This was back during the Confederation of Freeports (COF) days and when TAZ was still an Official Faction. I belonged to TAZ at the time and represented them as an Ambassador. In short, at the end, Xavier took his Zoner Battleship, made it a sustainable township and then cruised off the map to find a new home for him and his own.
Anyways, life got busy and I had to duck out, but now I'm back.

I'm going to be flying about as Silas Triton inRP - A descendant of my previous character (There is a whole reverse gravitational time dilation type thing in the RP to explain why my character isn't in their early teens. I'll write it up soon)

As I get back acquainted with the game I'll see where I want to sit in terms of factions, which I'm happy to receive recommendations from.
The Admins have been really helpful in setting my up again via the Returning Veterans Program!

Besides all this, whats the political highlights in Sirius at the moment? Happy to receive links if that's easier for people, or badgering about the use of the forum search function. I do miss the old days.

Peace.]]> https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=204392 Wed, 21 Aug 2024 01:47:20 +0000 Tenshi Kuonji]]> https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=204392
To the people i admire and love, you are not that part of that "idiocincracy" of users, you are my lovelies so we are pretty damn okay with you (i can even count it with my fingers of maybe both hands only, everyone else, keep reading (or can ignore too i don't care)).

This is the sweet time for revenge, contracts, and payments for everything that was done in my absence. Don’t they understand, right?

Read…

From now on, you will be like a caged bird. I’ll have the option to decide whether you live or die, so I suggest you don’t say anything that angers me.
Furthermore… I’ve waited a long time, so simply destroying or eliminating you would be too boring…
So ...

I swear that … No one will escape from the strikes.

]]>
To the people i admire and love, you are not that part of that "idiocincracy" of users, you are my lovelies so we are pretty damn okay with you (i can even count it with my fingers of maybe both hands only, everyone else, keep reading (or can ignore too i don't care)).

This is the sweet time for revenge, contracts, and payments for everything that was done in my absence. Don’t they understand, right?

Read…

From now on, you will be like a caged bird. I’ll have the option to decide whether you live or die, so I suggest you don’t say anything that angers me.
Furthermore… I’ve waited a long time, so simply destroying or eliminating you would be too boring…
So ...

I swear that … No one will escape from the strikes.

]]> https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=204393 Sun, 18 Aug 2024 08:06:49 +0000 Ashur]]> https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=204393
Hello everyone,


it's been a while since I last played Freelancer, but it's one of my all-time favourites in gaming. recently I felt like travelling to Sirius again and came across the discovery project here.
I'm from germany and my main hobbies are live roleplaying and wargaming. Especially live roleplay is very time-consuming in my spare time, as I'm part of a very active endgame group and we do a lot together as a group apart from the events.
Accordingly, I'm not completely unfamiliar with role-playing games, as I earn my living working in a nerd shop.
I'm curious to see what awaits me here and what the game is like, especially if you don't have much time and are only online for a few hours a week.


Kind regards

Ashur / Jan]]>
Hello everyone,


it's been a while since I last played Freelancer, but it's one of my all-time favourites in gaming. recently I felt like travelling to Sirius again and came across the discovery project here.
I'm from germany and my main hobbies are live roleplaying and wargaming. Especially live roleplay is very time-consuming in my spare time, as I'm part of a very active endgame group and we do a lot together as a group apart from the events.
Accordingly, I'm not completely unfamiliar with role-playing games, as I earn my living working in a nerd shop.
I'm curious to see what awaits me here and what the game is like, especially if you don't have much time and are only online for a few hours a week.


Kind regards

Ashur / Jan]]> https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=204371 Thu, 15 Aug 2024 20:36:36 +0000 Junes]]> https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=204371
I signed up on this forum when I was 15 exactly 14 years ago to this day. I am 29 now. I had been playing Freelancer since I was 8. The world has changed a lot since then but I am still an avid fan of space and scifi. I still replay Freelancer every year, along with many other games of my childhood and teenage years, nothing has surpassed this game in terms of atmosphere and the true feeling of exploration since. On this server I learned English since it's not my native language. It helped me lot during high school, I have met friends here who led to other friends who have become RL friends eventually. It brings tears to my eyes seeing that this site has been staying true to the old mid 2000s forum style all these years and that people are still playing this awesome game and mod.

Cheers.]]>
I signed up on this forum when I was 15 exactly 14 years ago to this day. I am 29 now. I had been playing Freelancer since I was 8. The world has changed a lot since then but I am still an avid fan of space and scifi. I still replay Freelancer every year, along with many other games of my childhood and teenage years, nothing has surpassed this game in terms of atmosphere and the true feeling of exploration since. On this server I learned English since it's not my native language. It helped me lot during high school, I have met friends here who led to other friends who have become RL friends eventually. It brings tears to my eyes seeing that this site has been staying true to the old mid 2000s forum style all these years and that people are still playing this awesome game and mod.

Cheers.]]> https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=204346 Tue, 13 Aug 2024 12:42:04 +0000 Seapanda]]> https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=204346
After not playing Freelancer for a good 15-ish years, it's so good to be back to it! I've first played freelancer when it came out, all the way back in ancient 2003. After I spent a year playing it and roleplaying in its singleplayer, I proceeded to spend an ungodly amount of time in the old BSG mod. The level of nostalgia is through the roof!

I missed this game, and it completely blew my mind when I saw that even this mod is still being maintained and updated. It's so good to be back!

I'll see you all in space!

Panda.]]>
After not playing Freelancer for a good 15-ish years, it's so good to be back to it! I've first played freelancer when it came out, all the way back in ancient 2003. After I spent a year playing it and roleplaying in its singleplayer, I proceeded to spend an ungodly amount of time in the old BSG mod. The level of nostalgia is through the roof!

I missed this game, and it completely blew my mind when I saw that even this mod is still being maintained and updated. It's so good to be back!

I'll see you all in space!

Panda.]]> https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=204306 Fri, 09 Aug 2024 01:55:12 +0000 dusselduss]]> https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=204306
I've originally been playing on german HHC Server back in 2007/08. Afterwards a few of us made our way here. I think I was participating in some Rheinland RP and the Shaulanca Fleet here.
Just finished my annualy freelancer playthrough and found some Discovery videos on youtube.

Very nice to see this is still alive, thanks for all the great work done here.
Even nicer to be able to play out my fantasies of being a Junker again.

See you out in space pilots!]]>
I've originally been playing on german HHC Server back in 2007/08. Afterwards a few of us made our way here. I think I was participating in some Rheinland RP and the Shaulanca Fleet here.
Just finished my annualy freelancer playthrough and found some Discovery videos on youtube.

Very nice to see this is still alive, thanks for all the great work done here.
Even nicer to be able to play out my fantasies of being a Junker again.

See you out in space pilots!]]> https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=204234 Thu, 01 Aug 2024 17:05:36 +0000 Waki74]]> https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=204234 https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=204118 Mon, 22 Jul 2024 16:39:16 +0000 Timothy_Scott]]> https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=204118 https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=204089 Fri, 19 Jul 2024 17:41:55 +0000 FZ-YMK22]]> https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=204089
Just randomly came across a video on Youtube last night showing off the 2024 freelancer HD update and the discover multiplayer...was completely blown away. Freelancer was my favorite game growing up, still have the CD for it but don't have a PC with a disc drive anymore lol so i've just kept it for sentimental value.

Anyways, i got the game installed and running on my W11 machine last night and was enjoying a short session of nostalgia bliss. Looking forward to going through the campaign a bit more and also jumping into the discover server.

See you all in the stars
FZ-YMK]]>
Just randomly came across a video on Youtube last night showing off the 2024 freelancer HD update and the discover multiplayer...was completely blown away. Freelancer was my favorite game growing up, still have the CD for it but don't have a PC with a disc drive anymore lol so i've just kept it for sentimental value.

Anyways, i got the game installed and running on my W11 machine last night and was enjoying a short session of nostalgia bliss. Looking forward to going through the campaign a bit more and also jumping into the discover server.

See you all in the stars
FZ-YMK]]>